EP2943309A1 - Optische umlaufvorrichtung zum einkoppeln eines laserstrahls und verfahren zum positionieren eines laserstrahls - Google Patents
Optische umlaufvorrichtung zum einkoppeln eines laserstrahls und verfahren zum positionieren eines laserstrahlsInfo
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- the invention relates to an optical circulating device for coupling a laser beam and a method for positioning a laser beam.
- Pulsed laser radiation for material processing can be generated, for example, in the following ways: Q-switched resonators, oscillators and (regenerative) amplifiers.
- the pulses In material processing, the problem now arises that the pulses must be separated individually, which has to be done fast enough between the individual laser pulses to impinge on a workpiece at different positions.
- different parts of the workpiece In the processing of materials with lasers usually different parts of the workpiece should be processed in succession with the laser.
- One example application relates to the edge isolation of solar cells, in which a line of defined overlapping individual laser pulses is drawn along the workpiece.
- the pulse laser beam is moved relative to the workpiece surface. To generate this relative movement of the laser pulse beam relative to the workpiece can either be a change in location of the workpiece, which is a slower alternative, or scanning the laser over the fixed or slowly moving workpiece as a faster alternative.
- Known laser scanner systems use moving optics, such as mirrors, whose maximum positive and negative acceleration for positioning a laser beam sets the system speed limits.
- rotating prisms, glass bodies etc. operate at a constant speed or angular velocity, their positioning speed is limited in mechanical terms and for stability reasons so that they are not usable for the high repetition rates described above.
- Another application of pulsed lasers in micromachining is, for example, the drilling of fine holes.
- optics with very fast rotating optical components are used to position individual laser pulses. The beam positioning speed is limited by mechanical factors and for stability reasons.
- the invention has for its object to provide a device or a method with which a rapid beam positioning for laser beams, in particular pulsed laser beams.
- One aspect of the invention relates to an optical circulating device for coupling a laser beam with deflecting devices, between which the coupled-in laser beam circulates in the optical circulating device, and with a decoupling device for decoupling the laser beam after a predetermined number of circulations in the circulating device.
- the deflecting devices are designed and arranged such that the position of the laser beam during decoupling is dependent on the number of circulations performed in the optical circulating device.
- the optical circulating device may have a resonator-like structure, similar to a laser resonator.
- the optical circulating device is connected downstream of a conventional laser system and a laser beam generated in a conventional laser system can be coupled into this external optical structure of the circulating device.
- the structure of the optical circulating device is similar to a resonator at least in the sense that the coupled laser beam can circulate the circulating device per revolution in almost the same way in an optical setup. Illustratively, this can be done for example in a ring resonator-like structure, which passes through the laser beam several times.
- the deflection devices serve to guide the laser beam in the circulating device. As deflecting devices, for example, mirrors, reflectors, prisms or the like can be provided for this purpose.
- the laser beam After a predetermined number of revolutions of the laser beam in the circulating device, the laser beam is decoupled from the circulating device.
- the position of the laser beam during decoupling depends on the number of circulations performed in the circulating device. For example, the beam position after each individual revolution may shift by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction, so that the more the orbits of the laser beam in the beam, the more the beam position is shifted in that one predetermined direction Circulating device has performed.
- the deflecting devices are designed and arranged in such a way that the laser beam is guided in a certain way is to be understood such that the deflecting devices (ie for example mirrors, etc.) are adjusted such that the laser beam coupled in the circulating device produces a experiences very specific steering, that is guided accordingly.
- the optical circulating device is designed such that the laser beam experiences a slight spatial offset per revolution.
- the deflection devices of the circulating device are, so to speak, slightly “misadjusted”.
- this "misalignment" in the optical circulator is intentional and intentionally calibrated so that a coupled-in laser beam in the circulating device experiences a slight change in its beam position per revolution.
- the coupling can be done for example with a so-called scraper mirror, i. a mirror with a hole.
- the laser beam After coupling, the laser beam passes through the optical structure of the circulating device. He can pass any optical components that are arranged in the optical circulating device.
- the position of the laser beam during decoupling may mean the geometric, ie spatial position of the laser beam.
- the position of the laser beam relates both to the exact spatial coordinates in the geometric space and the direction vector of the propagation direction of the laser beam during decoupling.
- the laser beam may in particular be a laser pulse, so that through the Circulating device can be spatially separated from each other several consecutive laser pulses.
- the optical circulating device no longer separates the different laser pulses, as known from the prior art, by a spatial tilting of steering mirrors, but rather by a different number of circulations in the circulating device. Since the rotation of the optical circulating device takes place in the speed of light, consecutive light pulses can be spatially separated from each other much faster than would be possible by a different tilting of a deflection mirror. Thus, the optical recirculation device enables ultrafast spatial separation of successive laser pulses, for example spatial separation of laser pulses provided at a repetition rate of a few megahertz. It is initially sufficient if the optical circulating device separates the individual laser pulses by a very small spatial distance, for example in the millimeter range. A further spatial splitting of the laser beams can be connected downstream of the circulating device in the form of an optical system, in order subsequently to further guide and use the laser beams, which are initially positioned only minimally differently from one another, for material processing.
- Such a conventional slow beam positioning concept can be used, for example, for macro positioning.
- the deflecting devices are designed and arranged such that at least three different positions of the laser beam are dependent on the coupling out of three different numbers of circulations performed in the optical circulating device.
- the decoupling of the laser beam can be done after one, two or three rounds to resolve three different beam positions from each other.
- a decoupling could be done after ten, twenty or thirty rounds, to separate the at least three different beam positions from each other.
- three to ten different positions of the laser beam in decoupling may be separated from each other after the laser beam has made three to ten different numbers of passes in the optical circulator.
- the more beam positions can be separated from one another by the optical circulating device, the more workpiece positions it is possible to deflect the laser beam for material processing.
- the deflecting devices are designed and arranged such that a lateral offset of the position of the laser beam during decoupling is dependent on the number of circulations performed in the optical circulating device.
- the laser beam can experience a lateral offset by a predetermined distance in each revolution, so be deflected per revolution in a direction in this direction.
- the deflection device could in particular be designed and arranged such that the lateral offset takes place in two dimensions, that is to say that the position of the laser beam experiences a lateral offset in two spatial directions either one behind the other or simultaneously.
- the beam position is thus displaced laterally per revolution in the optical circulating device not only in one direction, but in two.
- the offset in the two spatial directions can be designed differently strong.
- the deflecting devices are designed and arranged such that a beam angle of the laser beam during decoupling is dependent on the number of rotations performed in the optical circulating device.
- the laser beam undergoes an angular deflection with respect to its propagation direction per revolution in the circulating device.
- the deflection devices are such designed and arranged so that a circular path offset of the laser beam during decoupling is dependent on the number of circulations performed in the optical circulating device.
- This embodiment can be used, for example, for an ultrafast helical drilling method.
- the decoupling device has a Pockels cell.
- a Pockels cell is an electro-optical switch that is usually based on the Pockels effect, an electro-optical effect. If an electric field is applied to such a Pockels cell, it has different refractive indices for the E field components of the radiation flowing through it (birefringence). By controlling a Pockels cell thus the polarization of the light flowing through them can be influenced or adjusted, in particular the polarization direction of linearly polarized light can be switched so.
- Pockels cells regularly have a birefringent crystal.
- a Pockels cell in the sense of the present application may be based on a linear or non-linear electro-optical effect.
- Pockels cells are electrically switchable very quickly, so that for decoupling, for example, the polarization of the laser beam in the circulating device can be modified so that the laser beam is coupled to a polarization beam splitter after a predetermined number of revolutions in the circulating device.
- Such a Pockels cell can be switched so quickly that even laser pulses with very high repetition rates can be separated from one another.
- the Pockels cell can be arranged so that each rotation of the laser beam in the circulating device takes place through the Pockels cell.
- a single Pockels cell is sufficient to decouple laser beams after a different number of passes in the circulator.
- the deflection devices are designed and arranged such that the circulation of the laser beam in the circulation device takes place in a spiral-shaped path.
- the deflection devices can guide the laser beam, for example, in a triangular or quadrangular spiral path. Per round the laser beam runs apart or together from its spiral path, so that a spatial offset of the position of the laser beam is achieved after each revolution in the circulating device.
- One aspect of the invention relates to a method for positioning a laser beam with the steps:
- Decoupling of the laser beam from the circulating device such that the position of the laser beam during decoupling is dependent on the number of circulations performed in the optical circulating device.
- This method can be performed, for example, with an optical circulating apparatus according to the above-described aspect of the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of an optical deflection device, which resembles a ring resonator
- FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a rotating Auskoppelschaltelements as Auskoppelmechanismus for a circulating device
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of an optical circulating device 10 as an optical structure, which is externally formed by a laser resonator as an independent assembly.
- the optical circulating device 10 is arranged substantially in a quadrangular structure, which can be traversed by a laser beam.
- the quadrangular structure may for example be arranged horizontally and has at its four Umlaufeckticianen four deflection devices 1 1, 12, 13 and 14, which may be formed as a deflection mirror or deflection prism.
- a coupled into the optical circulating device 10 laser beam passes through the quadrangular structure until it is decoupled again from the circulating device.
- the laser beam at the deflection devices 1 1, 12, 13 and 14 is deflected so that it remains in the circulating device 10.
- the optical circulating device 10 For coupling the laser beam S, the optical circulating device 10 has a coupling-in mechanism 15.
- the optical circulating device 10 has a decoupling mechanism 16.
- the coupling mechanism 15 and the decoupling mechanism 16 may be formed in one or more parts, e.g. as a Pockels cell with thin-film polarizer (s), as an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) and / or as a movable optic.
- one or more further optical components 17 such as lenses, etc. may be arranged in the beam path of the circulating device 10.
- a polarization switch 16 ' is arranged, which can change the polarization of circulating in the circulating device radiation so that the radiation is decoupled at the coupling-out mechanism 16.
- the decoupling mechanism 16 may be formed as a polarization beam splitter, the laser light of a predetermined polarization (eg p-polarization) can transmit and thus leaves within the circulating device 10, and the laser light of another polarization (eg s-polarization) decouples from the circulating device 10.
- a predetermined polarization eg p-polarization
- another polarization eg s-polarization
- the polarization switch 16 'need not be formed as a separate component, but may be formed as part of the decoupling mechanism 16.
- the polarization switch 16 ' cooperates with the decoupling mechanism 16 in such a way that laser light located in the circulating device 10 is decoupled from the circulating device 10 after passing through a predetermined number of circulations.
- the polarization switch 16 ' may be e.g. be formed as a Pockels cell, which is penetrated by coupled into the circulating device 10 laser light.
- a Pockels cell is electronically designed and thus very fast switchable.
- the position of an external laser beam S can be influenced as follows.
- a laser beam S is coupled to the coupling mechanism 15 in the circulating device 10.
- the coupled-in laser beam orbits the circulating device 10 as a coupled-in laser beam Si in the first revolution (clockwise in the exemplary embodiment shown).
- the laser beam Si uA passes through the polarization switch 16 '.
- the laser beam Si in the first circulation either retains its polarization or is changed.
- it is either coupled out at the outcoupling mechanism 16, or directed as a laser beam S 2 in a second circulation through the circulating device 10.
- the propagation position, that is to say the beam position, of the laser beam S 2 in the second revolution is laterally offset from the propagation position of the laser beam Si in the first revolution at the latest when the first deflection device 11 is reached.
- This offset is caused by a misalignment of the deflection devices 1 1, 12, 13 and 14 with respect to an exact quad circulation adjustment.
- the laser beam Sx + i is laterally displaced in the x + 1-th revolution with respect to the laser beam S x in the previous x-th revolution. This results in a lateral offset of the laser beam in the circulating device 10 in Dependence on the number of circulations performed.
- the coupled-in laser beam passes through the polarization switch 16 ', e.g. is designed as a Pockels cell.
- the polarization of the coupled-in laser beam can be switched over with each individual revolution.
- the implementation of a precisely predetermined number of cycles in the circulating device 10 is adjustable, depending on the Bestriebs sued the decoupling mechanism 16 and the polarization switch 16 '.
- any laser sources and laser processes can be coupled into the circulating device 10.
- the circulating device 10 achieves ultrafast jet splitting, e.g. can be used in industrial processes.
- the laser beam may pass through the recirculating device 10 such that its q parameter is reproduced at a particular location within the recirculating device 10 after one or more passes.
- a coupling-in mechanism can also be dispensed with, since the beam position is geometrically separated from the other beam progressions.
- the laser beams must not necessarily, as shown in Figure 1, necessarily parallel and / or laterally offset from each other through the optical circulating device.
- the laser beams can also differ by their radiation angle, which can offer advantages at narrow apertures, for example at the decoupling mechanism, an optional amplification and / or attenuation in the circulating device, as well as at linear and non-linear optical components.
- the decoupling mechanism 16 has a Pockels cell, its crystal is preferably designed so large that, given a parallel offset of the individual laser beams, all laser beams are conducted through the Pockels cell up to a predetermined number of circulations performed.
- the circulating device may be constructed such that the laser beams pass through the Pockels cell at the same lateral location with slight individual angular misalignment in all of the revolutions. This can be cost-effectively implement a circuit with a relatively small Pockels cell or small AOM as Auskoppelmechanismus.
- Pockels cells and AOMs achieve very high repetition rates, which is why fast circuits for circulating devices for high repetitive laser systems in the MHz range can be realized.
- Downstream of the circulating device 10 may be arranged a conventional (slow) beam positioning concept, e.g. for macro-positioning of the laser beam.
- the beam positions need not necessarily differ by a lateral parallel offset.
- Other types of geometric distinction can also be achieved by the positioning and arrangement of the deflection devices 11, 12, 13 and 14, such as e.g. Radiation angle, different beam positions offset in parallel on a circular path, as well as combinations of these beam positions.
- the beam positions can be positioned differently inside and outside the recirculating device than on a line.
- a circulation device for a Wendelbohrvon be provided, are coupled in the laser beams depending on the number of revolutions performed on a circular path offset in rotation to each other.
- the beam positions can be brought within the circulating device with suitable optical systems in any shape on a workpiece, such as for helical drilling in a Mikromaterialbearbeitung in a circular shape and / or a circular segment shape.
- suitable circulating device the angle of attack of the decoupled laser beam during rotation (eg for a helical drilling) can be varied quickly.
- the beam positions of the different decoupled laser beams may partially overlap.
- the optical design of the rotary device can be designed so that the q-parameter of the laser beam at the output, at which the laser beam is coupled out, is the same for all numbers of radiation cycles.
- the circulating device is designed such that the q-parameter is the same for all coupled-out laser beams.
- the circulating device shown in FIG. 1 is constructed spirally in a quadrilateral.
- the circulating device may be in a triangular or generally polygonal shape, with a corresponding number of diverters.
- the circulating device can be realized with only two deflection devices, wherein the circulating device is formed substantially elongated and a classic laser resonator with two deflection mirrors, between which the laser beam rotates.
- beam positioning of the coupled-out laser beams can be achieved depending on the number of turns made in the circulating apparatus, e.g. by reflecting surfaces of the two deflection devices are not parallel to each other, but slightly offset from each other.
- a gain medium may be arranged in the circulating device, are compensated by the losses in the circulations of the laser beam.
- the decoupling can be done mechanically as an alternative to using a Pockels cell. Although this is slower, but also cheaper, since no expensive Pockels cell is needed.
- a decoupling mechanism 16 for example, a rotating mirror can be used, as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
- FIGS. 2 and 3 each show a schematic representation of an embodiment of a rotating Auskoppeladors as Auskoppelmechanismus 16.
- a mirror substrate may be provided a conventional cylindrical mirror substrate. A portion of the mirror surface is highly reflective coated, while the rest of the substrate is formed almost lossless transmissive to laser light. Beam positions for the first to tenth circulation of a laser beam are arranged running from the outside to the center of rotation of the mirror towards. When the laser beam passes through a transmissive region of the substrate, which is shown in white in FIGS. 2 and 3, the laser beam remains in the circulating device for at least one further revolution. When the laser beam passes through a reflective region which is hatched in FIGS. 2 and 3, the laser beam is coupled out.
- the mirrors shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 are rotatable about their center of rotation such that, depending on the mirror position, a laser beam is coupled out of the circulating device after a different number of revolutions.
- a second or third Pockels cell can be used to increase the switching speed.
- switches in the Circulating device may be arranged to reverse the direction of a performed during each rotation lateral offset of the beam axis of the laser beam by 180 °.
- a lateral offset by a set path in a first direction per revolution can be reversed in a lateral offset by an equally large path in the opposite direction per subsequent circulation.
- the laser beam would thus have the same beam position as in the ith orbit before the beam reversal. This allows further (different) circulation rates for the extraction of the same beam positions.
- switches such as one or more Pockels cells
- switches may be disposed in the circulating device to rotate the direction by which a lateral offset of the beam axis per revolution occurs by 90 °.
- a lateral offset of the beam axis in a direction rotated by 90 ° direction is rotated by 90 ° direction.
- the circulating device can be supplemented by a second sub-circulation device, whose axis of the beam axis is arranged offset by 90 ° to the beam axis of the first sub-circulation device.
- the circulating device thus has two sub-circulation devices.
- the beam axes in the two sub-circulation devices can be offset at an angle other than 90 ° to each other, with finely adjustable decoupling patterns of the beam positions can be realized, similar to moire structures.
- the second sub-circulation device can be dimensioned larger, so that the beam circulations in the two sub-circulation devices do not interact with each other.
- the sub-circulation devices may alternatively be connected in series to sequentially adjust both dimensions of the beam position.
- a workpiece may be connected downstream of the circulating device, to which the decoupled laser beam is imaged.
- On the workpiece can be generated by successive decoupled laser beams with different beam positions, a kind of printed image. This can be used eg for the production of pressure rollers or for other applications in which a pattern is to be generated on a surface.
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